Needful Things
2011 • 933 pages
Ratings107
Average rating3.7
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Ratings107
Average rating3.7
A wonderful new store has opened in Castle Rock, Maine. It's a place where you can get anything your heart desires - sexual pleasure, wealth, power... but for a nerve-shattering price.
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Kings scariest villain yet. Ten thousand times scarier than Pennywise.
A nearly perfect read until the last 10-15 pages. Not a great ending but certainly not bad enough to drop any stars. This just jumped right into my top three King novels.
Precise rating: 3.5 ⭐
As an audiobook it was very entertaining. I can imagine it to be a bit slow at times had I read it myself. The ending was very King-esque: kinda random and anticlimactic.
I felt like the story lost a lot of weight due to the fact that people were basically in a trance when doing the pranks for Gaunt. It wasn't really about how far people would go to fulfil their hearts' desire. Though the ending felt like exactly that was what King intended the story to be. And it just wasn't.
So instead of a deep story criticising consumerism or whatever – which it could've been – it was just a pulpy, entertaning novel. That's fine, I like that, but let's drop the pretence, I'd say. ^^
